{"id":325,"date":"2007-12-03T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=325"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:03:01","slug":"street-market-no-a-railway-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/03\/street-market-no-a-railway-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Street market? No, a railway market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]xSqNx7vJLDE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Spacing reader Mark Slutsky sent us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xSqNx7vJLDE\">this video<\/a> today, showing a market lining a railway in Thailand. Within seconds of a train passing through, the market springs back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the video raises some pretty obvious questions, like why on earth would a market be located <i>on<\/i> a set of train tracks? Andrew Leonard, on Salon&#8217;s How the World Works, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/htww\/2007\/10\/18\/bangkok_train_2\/index.html\">points the way to some explanations<\/a>. Apparently, the train tracks in question are actually part of the the Mae Klong Railway, an interurban line that runs diesel trams along local roads from Bangkok in the east to Samut Songkhram in the west. Along the way, it passes through a local wet market. The trains are infrequent enough that they don&#8217;t pose much of a danger or inconvenience to shoppers or vendors.<\/p>\n<p>According to Justin Bur, who wrote in to Salon, this is not so different from streets markets in Belgium or France through which trams pass. In Hong Kong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/260876746\/\">trams pass right through the middle of a street market<\/a> in North Point. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thai-blogs.com\/media\/markettrain_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thai-blogs.com\/media\/markettrain_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thai-blogs.com\/index.php?blog=5&#038;p=1136\">Richard Barrow<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]xSqNx7vJLDE[\/youtube] Spacing reader Mark Slutsky sent us a link to this video today, showing a market lining a railway in Thailand. Within seconds of a train passing through, the market springs back to life. Naturally, the video raises some pretty obvious questions, like why on earth would a market be located on a set of<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/03\/street-market-no-a-railway-market\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Street market? 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